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Gomez Gonzalez, Maria De Los Angeles – Applied Linguistics, 2013
Cohesion, or the connectedness of discourse, has been recognized as playing a crucial role in both language production and comprehension processes. Researchers have debated about the "right" number and classification of cohesive devices, as well as about their interaction with coherence and/or genre. The present study proposes an integrative model…
Descriptors: Statistical Significance, Connected Discourse, Classification, Discourse Analysis
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Simpson-Vlach, Rita; Ellis, Nick C. – Applied Linguistics, 2010
This research creates an empirically derived, pedagogically useful list of formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing, comparable with the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000), called the Academic Formulas List (AFL). The AFL includes formulaic sequences identified as (i) frequent recurrent patterns in corpora of written and spoken language,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Speech, Written Language, Oral Language